Food Security—A Commentary: What Is It and Why Is It So Complicated?

Food Security—A Commentary: What Is It and Why Is It So Complicated?

Every year over 10 million people die of hunger and hunger related diseases. Nearly six million of these are children under the age of five; that is one child's death approximately every six seconds. Understanding how this still occurs amid the ever increasing social enlightenment of the 21st century-and under the auspices of a vigilant global developmental community-is one of the key challenge...

what urban design is and why it is so important today

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What Is Software Testing ? And Why Is It So Hard ?

■ The user executed untested code. Because of time constraints, it’s not uncommon for developers to release untested code—code in which users can stumble across bugs. ■ The order in which statements were executed in actual use differed from that during testing. This order can determine whether software works or fails. ■ The user applied a combination of untested input values. The possible input...

Project BioShield: what it is, why it is needed, and its accomplishments so far.

Project BioShield is a comprehensive effort involving the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), its component agencies, and other partner federal agencies to speed the research, development, acquisition, and availability of medical countermeasures to improve the government's preparedness for and ability to counter chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threat agents. The le...

Rheumatoid cachexia: what is it and why is it important?